Tiling



(No Model.)

- J. H. CRUSH.

. TILING No. 374,143. A Patented Nov. 29, 1887.

Q Q I @y g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. ORUSE, OF FELIOITY, OHIO.

TILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374.1%3, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed February 23, 1887. Serial No. 228,637. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. GRUsE, of Felicity, in the county of Glaremont and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tiling, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front perspective view of an arch with my improved tiling, and Fig. 2 is a front view of a modification.

My invention relates to an improvement in tiling; and it consists of a series of concave tiling-pieces beneath bridge-abntments, provlded at the edges with dovetails or recesses to receive keys therein, so as to secure them rigidly in position, and so disposed that the tiling will project beneath the side walls to further assist in retaining them in position and the walls from settling in quicksand bottoms, all of which will now be fully set forth in detail.

In the accompanying drawings, A repre sents vertical walls or arches, of any suitable style or material. B represents the tiling, which I design to so dispose as to have the edges project beneath the walls A aslight distance, the weight of the wall thus retaining them in position. These t-iling'are formed concave on their upper sides, or in the form of an ordinary arch reversed, with the side walls or abutments resting on the outer ones, so as to retain them in position. The tiling B is provided with recesses O at opposite sides, so

disposed that two of these recesses in opposite sections of tiling will have a key, D, placed therein, and thus prevent the said tiling from becoming detached. As will readily be noticed, this key D may be made of the same material as the ordinary tiling, and of any suitable color, and may be used as an ornament, if desired, and for the purpose of retaining the tiling in position.

Fig. 2 represents a modification of my device, wherein the foot-courses of the side walls or arches are designed to project beyond the main walls, so as to increase the bearing-surface of the walls.

As will readily be noticed, my device is especially designed to be used in places having qnicksand or loam bottoms, where an ordinary bridgepier would readily settle.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new 1s- 1. A concave tiling provided with the op positely'disposed recesses and joined together with'keys and extending under the edges ofthe walls, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the tiling having retaining-keys with the side walls resting on the edges of the tiling, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, this 14th day of December, 1886, in the presence of witnesses.

JOHN H. ORUSE.

Witnesses:

O. D. ZERBE, ROBERT RAMSEY. 

